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A former Ohio deputy treasurer involved in a $3.2 million kickback scheme tried to run over his
wife and threatened to kidnap their children, according to court documents.

Samar Ahmad, the wife of Amer Ahmad, said in a request for a protection order that her husband
has slapped her and thrown her to the ground in recent weeks and has been “irrationally angry.”

Mrs. Ahmad filed the request on Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill. She and her
husband live in the county, which includes Chicago.

She also said in the request that Mr. Ahmad, 39, had run away. That might have been what
prompted U.S. District Judge Michael H. Watson to issue
a warrant for Mr. Ahmad’s arrest on Friday. He had been free on bond while
awaiting sentencing in federal court in Columbus.

Mrs. Ahmad said in her handwritten filing that her husband had attempted suicide multiple times
and had ordered her to obtain a fake birth certificate for him from Pakistan so he could get a new
passport. Mr. Ahmad, whose parents are Pakistani, had to surrender his passport before being
released on bond.

Mrs. Ahmad wrote that her husband had threatened to take their three young children away from
her and to “ruin” or “hurt” her. She said he told her she would never see their daughter again
because “they were going to see Allah.”

She asked that her husband have no contact with the children or with her.